By Joshua Shulman, Alan Ogilvie, Ali Hodjat This article and video series, presented by Bitmovin, Friend MTS, and Intertrust, covers how to secure the delivery of your OTT Service content from origination all the way through to the end user via browser-based players. Following the best practices we outline, will ensure that you are protecting your content and revenue…
This blog post is continuation of an ongoing blog and webinar technical deep series. You can find the first blog post here. The first post covered the fundamentals of live low latency and defined chunked delivery methods with CMAF. This blog post expands on chunked CMAF delivery by explaining it’s application with MPEG-DASH to achieve low…
In the day and age of online streaming, Google Chromecast is probably the most affordable living room OTT solution on the market. Google originally introduced the dongle with the intent to connect phone apps to a not so “Smart” TVs back in the day, so users can stream content from their phones onto a larger…
Welcome back to Bitmovin’s Encoding Excellence series! Our first post covered why video quality metrics matter. The second post provided an “objective” introduction to the top three objective video quality metrics (see what we did there?). The third post in our Encoding Excellence series is an exploration of quality measurement methods (and their limitations) through…
The necessity for streaming capabilities amongst video content distributors is at an all-time high! Consumers and developers alike are racing to find and distribute the best content at their disposal. Unfortunately, this high demand for video content is often undermined by a lack of security around original content. As a result, creators and distributors alike…
Azure customers given complete access to rich set of cloud encoding and playback features from Bitmovin at IBC 2019 Bitmovin is excited to announce the integration of our world-class innovative cloud-based video streaming solutions, the Encoder and Player, with Microsoft’s Azure. Azure customers can now use encoding and player solutions from Bitmovin to create highly…
Bitmovin Player and Analytics: Better Together! Unlock the power of Bitmovin Analytics data across every Bitmovin Player instance, with just one click! Yes, it’s that simple. Watch this quick video to learn how to test both the Bitmovin Player and Analytics products with a free, 30 day trial. We’ve always believed in data driven development,…
I’m Michael Riha, a Solutions Architect with Bitmovin. I wrote this guide to make it easy and save you time implementing Android TV apps using the Bitmovin Player SDK. A couple of months ago I had to build a prototype to showcase our capabilities on an old Android TV device with a rather old version…
Roku is a leading platform for video delivery, but Roku development can be a challenge for even the most experienced programmers. The new Bitmovin Roku SDK is a great place to start. Why Roku? There are a lot of video streaming platforms on the market today, but in our opinion Roku stands out as one…
In his recent presentation at the Demuxed conference for video engineers, Bitmovin solution architect, James Yeh, looked at the pros and cons of delivering video to mobile devices using an HTML5 player versus using the native player. Streaming video to mobile devices In our recent video developer survey, we found that the vast majority of…
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